A Lesson Before Dying

Synopsis

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.

Main Cast

Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Age : 59 | Popularity : 34%

Cicely Tyson

Tante Lou

Age : 96 | Popularity : 8%

Mekhi Phifer

Jefferson

Age : 49 | Popularity : 5%

Irma P. Hall

Miss Emma

Age : 88 | Popularity : 15%

Brent Jennings

Reverend Ambrose

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

Age : 55 | Popularity : 3%

Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Age : 82 | Popularity : 13%

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Teleplay	Ann Peacock
	Novel	Ernest J. Gaines
Directing	Director	Joseph Sargent
Production	Producer	Robert Benedetti
Department	Role	Name

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